Today I reserved 6 flights to Seattle so we can go meet Little Miss Isabella Luna, who was born two nights ago. I love her so much already, and I am BURSTING with good looking-forward-osity. So far it looks like Mom, Wendi, her 3 boys, Jen, Shan, Zack, Heather, Renee, Nick, Danielle, and Steve will all be spending 3 nights at Crescent Lake (the place that calls my soul) to bask in new baby joy!--- Mom, Wendi and boys did not end up going. There will be more to come on this glorious adventure.
I am in love with this human experience - even when I'm at a BORED meeting. Bob is at home making lasagna as I sit here listing my joys instead of getting aggravated. I need to find ways to love him better. I also noticed today that I better drop my icky uneasiness about a couple of my classes. They feel it, and it is beneath my capacity for love.
A few days later -
At Aurelios - dropping off notebooks for Dana to grade. She is all gooey with love and adventure and plans for the future. She is glowing and spilling over with I-miss-you-alreadys for her California Dream. So so so sweet. I can't stay sad that she is leaving for long.
p.s. I am falling in teacher-love with my students again -- even the ones who challenge me, and the ones who get all sassy, and the cheat-sheeters, and those quiet withdrawn ones, and the ones who never stop talking or singing or "crackin" or tapping. I just love them and all their securities and insecurities, their dramas and isms and hang ups, all their tries and their give-ups, and put downs and lift ups. They fill me up and fill my life up with interest and challenge and amazing young-people-magic. I am so lucky to be so right-where-I'm-supposed-to-be.
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